Movies You Forgot You Forgot

How could you forget David Lynch’s dreamy Mulholland Drive. Well, it did come out in 2001, which is ages ago and Joe doesn’t really get along with Lynch’s pot of paint.

On the docket: the clues of Mulholland Drive; Nolan, of course Nolan; can Joe apply Lynch logic to a kid’s story?, the Movie Star Mind Meld game, the Box Office game, and more.

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Tom Cruise takes a big toothy swing in Neil Jordan’s Hollywood adaptation of Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire. Joe and Adam discuss this movie plus their thoughts on Cruise’s new film Digger. 

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Cast your mind back to 2004 and Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s puppet comedy about America and famous actors: it’s Team America: World Police. It has funny songs too. 

How has it aged though? How many jokes are there? If you don’t find something funny, are you humourless?  And who would Adam cast in a modern update of The Core? Plus a Mind Meld.

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Matt LeBlanc and Gary Oldman star in this Stephen Hopkins directed 1998 blockbuster movie 'Lost in Space'! What other blockbusters came out that year? Why are there two Jack Johnsons confused in IMDB? And why wasn't Col. Jack O'Neill invited to a BBQ? All of this and more on today's episode of this podcast.

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Barry Jenkins’ 2017 (UK release date) Oscar winner gets the Forgot You Forgot treatment. Adam watched in on blu-ray, no big deal, but does the blurb give the right movie nod for each actor?

Starring Mahershala Ali, Trevante Rhodes and Naomie Harris, this episode  sees Joe and Adam tussle over the film’s choices, and whether poetry is better than realism. Oh, and coming-of-age movies more generally.

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It's 2004's indie rom-com Garden State, starring (and written & directed by) Zach Braff of Scrubs fame. Also Natalie Portman. Joe & Adam discuss this and also debate the differences between movies and films.

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Find out Joe’s rubbish excuses for not having watched Garden State. Never mind, because the pair had still watched some other movies/films that they chatted about instead.

Mainly, The End of Oak Street. Why is David Robert Mitchell’s 80s-inflected Amblin-style popcorn blockbuster getting so many shrugs?

Joe likes football, and he’s seen a sort of football based documentary - The Last Resident of the Holloway Motel. 

Also on the docket: a bit on the latest Spiderman (Brand New Day!) and Joe’s finally seen Before The Devil Knows Your Dead. Did...

Mathieu Kassovitz's 1995 French masterpiece La Haine is the topic of today's episode. Joe & Adam dive into the film but also discuss: in-laws, Cliff Curtis' character names, how many Speilberg references are there in the film? And more.

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The 2002 action thriller, The Bourne Identity got forgot; really? Adam says so, says he’s a Supremacy guy… but what of the Doug Liman director first one, scripted by Tony Gilroy? 

What are the best bits? Who would we be if we got Bourned? Who is Jason Bourne? Who is a good recast for a modern (baby) Bourne?

All this and more!

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Quentin Tarantino's 1998 flick Jackie Brown is the topic of today's discussion. Joe & Adam dive into the movie, Tarantino's catalogue and more, including: are you a page folder or bookmark person? Which actors belong with which directors? Could Jake Gyllenhaal do a Nolan movie? And how big is Joe's new lamp?

How much is there to say about 1997’s The Fifth Element, beyond the great production design and some fun performances… not a whole lot it turns out. 

There’s the Gary Oldman Game though, and who won acting Oscar chat, and there is a prolonged diversion into Django Unchained.

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The Mask of Zorro, starring Antonio Bandares, Anthony Hopkins & Catherine Zeta-Jones, is the film of choice for today's episode. But don't worry: Joe & Adam barely talk about it. 

Joe and Adam muse over films they’ve seen recently, focusing on a shoddy trip to the cinema for 500 Miles. Plus Supergirl gets both barrels for its approach to covers, Mando & Grogu splits opinion and Savage House gets some heady praise. But it’s not really about the movies (or films) is it? It’s the fun in between.

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Revisiting the most lauded film of 2025, Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another (or for the too busy to say things fully: PTA’s OBAA).

Joe loved it, saw it twice. Adam was chillier… has he chilled? And what Christopher Nolan got to do with it? Expect to hear all about expectation and a run down of PTA’s oeuvre (love that word.) This is the last in this current solo series, and it’s the best one.

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It’s here, Sir Christopher Nolan’s take on Homer’s epic tale of a man’s journey home, The Odyssey. Starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland et al, the MYFYF duo ponder what went right and what went wrong. Spoiler alert: there are spoilers.

They then each rank and rate Nolan’s films (leaving out Following, Insomnia and Batman Begins though, cos Joe hasn’t seen those). Enjoy!

Some films carry a weight: it’s a classic; it’s a masterpiece, it’s a classic masterpiece. Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal is one such film, and Joe loves it. Till now, it’s never felt like the right time for Adam to dally with Bergman. Now Joe has made him watch a Knight play chess with Death. 

This episode comes with no weight, it’s a tale of a man, a film and a rusty nail.

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This week, Joe made Adam watch First Blood, starring John J Rambo aka Slyvester Stallone. How come 80s action aficionado Adam never watched it? It stirs all sorts of thoughts, not least on loners new in town, righteous kills and how inevitable is it that such films male violent anti-heroes aspirational.

Also: Sir Christopher puts in a call to Homer, to check all’s good.

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Joe’s busy for a few weeks or so, but he’s getting Adam to watch some films and talk about them.

First up for this is 2016’s Lion, directed by Garth Davis and starring Dev Patel.

It’s a good flick, well worth watching - but how good? Can Joe guess what Adam will think of it?

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Stephen Spielberg is back to the alien well with 2026’s government chase caper Disclosure Day. Starring Emily Blunt and Josh O’Connor. 

Did Joe really make Adam watch it? How’s Stevie’s new flick match up to his others? Do directors age out? And what’s Toy Story 5 got to do with it all?

Find out on the first of these summer specials where Joe Makes Adam Watch A Film, and Adam talks about it - by himself. Usual episodes will return after the World Cup.

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Don’t watch the remake of Alfie starring Jude Law (2004), but do listen to this episode about the remake of Alfie. 

And do also watch the original Alfie (1966) starring Michael Caine - it’s a bit bleak, but it more than earns its existence, and Adam talks about the far superior original (aren’t they all) a fair bit.

Topics in today’s episode: urban legends, Sienna Miller, what is in the original Alfie that’s in the remake, what films are sexy, plus more!

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This is Valkyrie: 2009's Bryan Singer directed, Tom Cruise starring, Second-World-Wartime movie about a failed plot to kill Adolf Hitler. Joe & Adam talk Cruise, the best thrillers of all time, and play a game called "films better than Valkyrie" with some surprise outcomes.

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Stephen Norrington's 1998 film Blade is the topic of today's discussion, a movie in which a half-human vampire hunter, played by Wesley Snipes, seeks to foil the plot of mildly-bad vampire villain Dorf. 

Joe & Adam dive into one of Adam's all time favourites and explore the film from several different angles, including Freudian. 

Oscar Isaac makes some risky investments and dangerous deals to grow his oil company, in the middle of a most violent year in New York in the early 1980s. Joe & Adam discuss this grown up movie, and also play a couple of IMDB based games. 

It’s the phenomenal 2004 Studio Ghibli, Hayao Miyazaki directed based on the book of the same name flick Howl’s Moving Castle.

How could Joe & Adam forget this? Doesn’t matter; they’re glad they did so they got to rewatch it and talk about: the choice between watching subtitled Ghiblis vs English dub versions, the joyful little side characters that invariably pop up in a Miyazaki flick and bindels, plus a sort of connected but not really side chat about The Last Samurai.

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It's the year 2000. Hollywood mega guy Clint Eastwood is releasing a movie starring him and directed by him. He's cast some cool, older guys to be his buddies. That's right, it's Space Cowboys (this isn't a joke).

Joe & Adam dive head first into barely talking about the movie at all, but instead discuss: which Friends characters would be which directors? Who would be recast in today's version of Space Cowboys? Where are today's Marcia Gay Hardens? And other such topics. 

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What is a Constant Gardener? Is Ralph Fiennes’ subtle performance a help or a hinderance for a film that is neither satisfyingly edgy nor solidly genre-tastic? 

Find out for the latest MYFYF episode on the Fernando Meirelles big pharma whistleblower flick, The Constant Gardener (2005). Also starring Rachel Weisz, this is as plum a forgot as you’ll ever likely to see.

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Joe & Adam discuss 2001's Donnie Darko, the ultimate DVD movie. What happened to director Richard Kelly? How good is the soundtrack really? And other things, I'm sure.

Jon Turteltaub’s National Treasure (2004) gets a good going over. Why is it so long? Why is Sean Bean so good in such a duff flick? Why are Americans obsessed with Freemasons? What bit of the Nic Cage cycle are we in?

Oh and an odd phone call from Tommy Lee Jones. All that and more awaits.

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It’s a special non-canon episode today, as Joe and Adam each went to see Ryan Gosling’s latest sci-fi blockbuster Project Hail Mary. Or should that be Project Fail Mary? 

Is it a fine movie? Or a good movie? Or a fine erring on good movie? Or a good erring on very good movie?

Also, can Ryan Gosling ‘open’ a movie? And if he can’t, who can?

Back to normal next week and: National Treasure!

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Shane Carruth and his buddy build a time machine for $7,000 in a time when such things were possible. Joe & Adam reflect on Primer, a great or unnecessarily complicated film depending on who you ask. Primer was a darling of Independent cinema in 2004, and holds a place in the hearts of many hard sci-fi fans. This episode includes a discussion about time travel, and a series of impersonations of Hugo Weaving as the Agent from The Matrix.

It’s canon episode 100, the listener-picked film: Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring, released is the hazy mists of time: 2001.

The much-loved first film in Peter Jackson’s Middle Earth trilogy finally gets its due on MYFF. It’s one of Joe’s faves of all time - he says it’s art. Adam is a little more chilly on it, has this rewatch softened his heart and made him an admirer?

They discuss the love and craft that went into the flick, the beautiful Balrog, Sean Bean’s film-stealing Boromir, the wrong lesson Holly...

1972's The Godfather, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, is considered one of the greatest films of all time. But is it? Joe & Adam discuss that, plus: does it romanticise patriarchy? Does daddy love us? And if one were to recast a mediocre version of The Godfather in the modern day, which role would Chris Pratt play?

Very simple: Joe and Adam buzz through Best: Casting, Original Screenplay, Adapted Screenplay, Supporting Actor/Actress, Actor/Actress, Director and Film.

Who do they want to win each category and who they think will
win. It’s an excuse to talk about One Battle After Another, Sentimental Value, Hamnet, Sinners, Marty Supreme and of course BUGONIA. 

Tangents include: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and phone call from Josh Safdie.

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James Kirk and Spock join the crew of the USS Enterprise and try to stop the destruction of multiple planets. That's right, it's JJ Abrams' 2009 Star Trek debut. Was this just his audition for Star WARS? Who knows. 

Join Joe & Adam as they discuss this partly ill-fated film, talk about the different Chrises and their attributes, and play a series of games. 

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K, an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a secret that could create chaos. He goes in search of a former blade runner who has been missing for over three decades. 

Joe & Adam dive into Blade Runner 2049. Is this a slept on sequel? Or are you Adam?

On today’s episode, the big aliens blowing up things blockbuster from 1996: Indepedence Day. Directed by Roland Emmerich, and starring William Smith and Jeff Goldblum, how has this ‘America leads the Free World’ type story fared over the years? How was Big Willy the biggest star of the time? 

It’s a bad long film. Sorry. The chat’s fun though.

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The Ticket Stub Journey comes to a close. What a year 2003 (twenty oh three) was: Adaptation, Confessions of a Dan, Matrix Reloaded… Just Married and more!

Adam digs through his faded stubs, saw lot of trash, not many double bills, and vaguely remembers who he was back then. What seat did he sit in? How much was the ticket?

Note: it’s The Dancer Upstairs, not the Dancer… and the ‘Bob’ Kinnear mistake was definitely intentional.

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It’s Big Mel; he’s back… and this time it’s not Scotland, it’s America he saves. Hailing from 2000, the Roland Emmerich’s directed The Patriot hits our eyes - and boy, at 2 hours 45 mins, does it hit.

The factual history is all over the shop… but is this actually watchable? Find out, Joe and Adam get waylaid by Andrew Garfield (Good Choice/Bad Choice), and they muse for far too long about Big Mel macking on his dead wife’s sister. It’s an epic chat, fitting for an epic movie.

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2019's Parasite, directed by Bong Joon Ho, should arguably not be on this list. But today, Joe & Adam discuss why they think this counts as a forget you forgot. Contents includes: dinner parties, smelling, rewatchability, and the box office game.

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It’s the wonderfully straightforward The Untouchables (1987). Directed by Brian De Palma and starring Costner, Connery and De Niro, this crime flick is still tip top - how could anyone forget they forgot it? Why is it not chatted about more? Is it because it’s not ‘cool’?

Joe and Adam ponder why the film works so well, digging into Ennio Morricone’s score and David Mamet’s script. Meanwhile, Peter Bradshaw calls in to chat to Brian.

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